Cooking: Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse

I remember telling people that it would probably take an apocalypse for me to start cooking...

And, well, here we are.

(The picture above is the first in a sequence of five pictures. I ate those noodles out of sheer stubbornness.)

Another Sign of the Apocalypse: Oxford has Cancelled its Conventional Exams

And we are definitely in the end of times: University of Oxford has cancelled its conventional exams this year and is replacing them with alternative forms of assessment.

It's (Probably Not) the End of the World as we Know it (and I Feel Fine)

According to this article, "This is not the end of the world, according to Christians who study the end of the world". What a relief!

(Tip of the cap to the Improbable Research blog.)

A Sign of the End of Days

I saw in an e-mail that Oxford has given blanket approval for vivas (i.e., thesis defenses) by video conference.

Now we know that we've reached the end of days.

(That said, they were faster than UCLA for blanket approval.)

Choose Your Own Apocalypse

This Slate.com article invites you to determine what you think will cause America's downfall. I'm highly amused, though unfortunately the "Power Law OF DOOM" isn't mentioned among the 144 possible causes of our downfall. (Actually, this is somewhat related to the possible cause of "complexity", but I prefer to call it the Power Law OF DOOM.) My choice of apocalypse placed me one box to the left of the average slate.com reader and almost all the one to the top of the chart (close to two full boxes above the average slate.com reader). Note, however, that I only chose the "Rod of God" option as one of my five favorite apocalypses because it was damned amusing.

(Tip of the cap to Jaideep Singh.)